{"id":53730,"date":"2025-08-08T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53730\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:05:08","slug":"ashes-banter-begins-stuart-broad-shuts-down-glenn-mcgraths-5-0-prediction-with-witty-response-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53730\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes banter begins! Stuart Broad shuts down Glenn McGrath&#8217;s 5-0 prediction with witty response | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123190551.jpg\" alt=\"Ashes banter begins! Stuart Broad shuts down Glenn McGrath's 5-0 prediction with witty response\" title=\"Stuart Broad and Glenn McGrath\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Stuart Broad and Glenn McGrath NEW DELHI: Australia\u2019s pace legend <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/glenn-mcgrath\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn McGrath<\/a> didn\u2019t hold back with his trademark bold prediction for the upcoming Ashes series, forecasting a 5-0 whitewash in Australia\u2019s favour. Speaking on BBC Radio, the former fast bowler said England would find it \u201cpretty tough\u201d to overcome the hosts when the series kicks off in Perth on November 21 \u2014 especially against a formidable bowling attack featuring Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, and Nathan Lyon on home turf.\u201cIt\u2019s very rare for me to make a prediction, isn\u2019t it? And I can\u2019t make a different one \u2014 5-0,\u201d McGrath said. \u201cPlus, that track record England have had, it\u2019d be interesting to see if they can win a Test.\u201dMcGrath\u2019s comments quickly drew a reaction from former England pacer <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/stuart-broad\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Broad<\/a>, who took a playful jab at the Aussie great on social media.\u201cIt\u2019s August!! At least let us land Glenn!,\u201d Broad wrote.McGrath\u2019s confidence stems partly from England\u2019s recent 2-2 series draw in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy against India \u2014 a result he believes highlighted vulnerabilities in England\u2019s batting lineup. He pointed to the clash between Australia\u2019s pace unit and England\u2019s top and middle order as the key contest of the series, with particular focus on Joe Root and Harry Brook.\u201cThis series will be a big one for Root. He\u2019s never really done that well in Australia \u2014 he\u2019s not even got a 100 over there,\u201d McGrath said. \u201cBrook\u2019s the one I\u2019ve enjoyed watching\u2026 The Australians will need to get on him pretty early.\u201dEngland haven\u2019t lifted the Ashes since 2015 and have struggled in Australia for over two decades. The last Ashes series Down Under ended 4-0 in Australia\u2019s favour in 2021-22. Over the past 15 home Tests, Australia have lost just twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuart Broad and Glenn McGrath NEW DELHI: Australia\u2019s pace legend Glenn McGrath didn\u2019t hold back with his trademark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[22816,10086,29560,29378,1721,29379,101,29561,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-53730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-ashes","tag-ashes-series","tag-aus-vs-eng","tag-australia-vs-england","tag-cricket","tag-glenn-mcgrath","tag-sports","tag-stuart-broad","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}